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    Building solana tool suite for aarch64

Following instructions from https://docs.solana.com/cli/install-solana-cli-tools#build-from-source.
Pre-reqs


rust toolchain
>8GB disk space

Support

aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu is not officially supported, so solana-install init will not work because https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/download/vX.X.X/solana-release-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 does not exist. You will need to setup the directory structures and config files yourself after installation if you wish to mirror the supported envs.
Assuming v1.10.27 was built at ~/solana-1.10.27
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/solana/install/releases/1.10.27/solana-release
# Copy a version.yml to ~/.local/share/solana/install/releases/1.10.27/solana-release/version.yml, edit target (not sure if necessary)
cp -r ~/solana-1.10.27/bin ~/.local/share/solana/install/releases/1.10.27/solana-release
ln -s ~/.local/share/solana/install/releases/1.10.27/solana-release ~/.local/share/solana/install/active_release

mkdir -p ~/.config/solana/cli
# Copy a cli config.yml to ~/.config/solana/cli/config.yml

# Append to PATH
export PATH="~/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin:$PATH"

Libre Computer Le Potato, Ubuntu 18.04 headless, solana v1.10.27

apt packages


pkg-config
libudev-dev
libclang-dev
clang
libssl-dev

cmake

cmake on Ubuntu 18.04 apt is 3.10 which does not have the --parallel build flag. >3.12 must be installed.
To do so, add kitware's apt repo before install:
sudo apt install software-properties-common # for apt-add-repository
wget -qO - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ bionic main'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cmake

Other stuff


cargo install's default behaviour is to place build artifacts in a temp folder, which means the build cache is lost across attempts. Might want to change the cargo install spl-token-cli command to include --target-dir to save spl-token-cli's build cache.